Mantra 2

Sukta 24

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

आसुरी चक्रे प्रथमेदं किलासभेषजमिदं किलासनाशनम्। अनीनशत् किलासं सरूपामकरत् त्वचम्

IAST Transliteration

āsurī cákre prathamédáṃ kilāsabheṣajám idáṃ kilāsanā́śanam | anī́naśat kilā́saṃ sarū́pām akarat tvácam

English Translation (Griffith/Whitney)

Āsurī first prepared this—this medicine for kilāsa, this destroyer of kilāsa. She made kilāsa to disappear; she rendered the skin of one uniform form.

Word by Word

• आसुरी: Āsurī (a plant/witchcraft-herb; personified)
• आसुरी: कर्तृ
• Type: Noun
• Root: आसुरी (प्रातिपदिक; ‘आसुर’ से स्त्रीलिङ्ग)

• चक्रे: made / prepared
• चक्रे: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (डुकृञ् करणे)

• प्रथमे: at first / in the beginning
• प्रथमे: अधिकरण
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रथम (प्रातिपदिक)

• इदम्: this
• इदम्: कर्म
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम)

• किल: indeed / surely (emphatic particle)
• किल: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: किल (निपात)

• असभेषजम्: not a medicine / no remedy
• असभेषजम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अ-सभेषज (प्रातिपदिक; नञ्-समास)

• इदम्: this
• इदम्: कर्म
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम् (सर्वनाम)

• किल: indeed / surely
• किल: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: किल (निपात)

• किलासनाशनम्: destroyer of kilāsa (a skin-disease; leprosy/white patches)
• किलासनाशनम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: किलास-नाशन (प्रातिपदिक; तत्पुरुष-समास)

• अनीनशत्: destroyed / made to disappear
• अनीनशत्: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: नश् (नशँ अदर्शने/नाशने) + अङ् (अनीनशत् = caus./intensive-like perfect/aorist usage in Vedic)

• किलासम्: kilāsa (skin disease)
• किलासम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: किलास (प्रातिपदिक)

• सरूपाम्: of uniform/normal appearance
• सरूपाम्: कर्म
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स-रूप (प्रातिपदिक)

• अकरत्: made
• अकरत्: —
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (डुकृञ् करणे)

• त्वचम्: skin
• त्वचम्: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वच् (प्रातिपदिक)

Attribution

Rishi: Atharvanic tradition (often transmitted under Atharvan/Angiras lineages for bhaiṣajya hymns; specific r̥ṣi attribution depends on the Anukramaṇī for AV 1.24).

Devata: Āsurī (as personified healing power/plant-deity) and the bhaiṣajya as efficacious agent against kilāsa.

Chandas: Anuṣṭubh (predominant; this verse is in the typical Atharvanic anuṣṭubh cadence).

Mantra Rasa

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